Posted on 03/01/2018 8:20:15 AM PST by rktman
The first firearm I purchased was just because. The year was 1993. I was young, had money burning in my pocket, and my buddy needed cash. And so, for a couple hundred bucks I owned a 9MM handgun, which immediately went under the bed, mostly forgotten, a totem to my spendthrift ways.
Another 15 years would pass before that investment paid off.
When we moved to Los Angeles in 2003, the gun came with me, and I again slipped it under the bed because that is where it had always been. Five more years passed.
I don’t want to say that our Los Angeles neighborhood changed, because I don’t know that for a fact. Maybe our luck changed. All I know is that things went to hell pretty quickly.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The President’s new posture on guns is totally unacceptable.
It’s better to HAVE and not NEED than to ...
Totally agree if that is really his position. Not smiling currently.
By the time she was in high school she had been indoctrinated into politically correct group think and so she hated guns and wanted them banned and confiscated.
Then one nigh while we, the parents were out, some criminals of a persuasion she had been indoctrinated into seeing as an oppressed minority tried to break into our house while she was alone and we are in area where law enforcement response can take a long time.
She was very quick to arm herself and was very happy to have a weapon to protect herself as it resolved what could have been a very bad situation in a very favorable manner.
After that little wake up call to reality her attitude towards gun ownership evolved in a more positive direction
They either want to silence you, tax you, jail you or kill you unless you're one of them. Unless they're in a bad mood and the meds have worn off and then . . all bets are off.
As an old cowboy in Arizona once said..
“You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it Oh Lord, YOU NEED IT!”
LOL! Yup.
Nobody needs a gun.....until they do.
The only issue with the story is that it makes sense to practice, not store for 5 years.
Trump is not a gun-grabber. He has not taken a "new" posture on guns.
He is sowing the field of negotiations with some seeds to see what sprouts.
It’s unfortunate that happened to your family/daughter. It does provide real validation of the old saying about a conservative being a liberal who had been mugged. Glad it did not come to that in your situation and your daughter became more positively inclined about the reason behind the Second Amendment. I’m sure she’ll grow into a fine young woman who will eventually lead a family with that same mindset.
Riding out a bad typhoon in the western Pacific, we young sailors snickered as a grizzled Chief walked into our section wearing a lifejacket. We young twerps teased him and pointed out this wasn’t WWII any longer.
His reply, “Look, this life jacket is just LIKE A GUN. You do not need it until you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY need it.”
Back then I didn’t get the point right away. Now I see how smart that old (36) Chief was.
Like insurance, you hope you never need to use it, but...
Train with it, too. Having it and not knowing how to use it is almost as bad as not having it in the first place.
“and when a Liberal touches a Gun they immediately want to kill someone”
THIS. This is so true. Whenever I get to talking to some anti-gun person, the first few things they say are all “If I had a gun, I would shoot someone” or “If someone cut me off in traffic I would shoot them”
These people shouldn’t have a gun, if this sort of thing isn’t beaten out of them.
At the range or in my intro classes I deal with a TON of that. I specialize in putting guns in the hands of anti-gunners. And about 80% of the time what they learn brings them to tears. And I’m not making that up. I know when the tears flow, I’ve done my job.
They understand the heavy burden that you self-impose by carrying lethal force. They understand now that they are responsible for it.
I’ve had a lot of students who go on to never get a permit, or go on to not buy a gun. And that’s fine. But they also change their attitudes 100% of the time.
I believe that is wishful thinking.
How do you “play” your opposition by telling them you agree with them when they KNOW your support will dry up for doing so?
His comments about keeping reciprocity out of a new bill don’t make sense in ANY context. You don’t “play” your opposition by offering them everything they want, then take any quid-pro-quo (reciprocity) off the table.
You don’t “play” your opposition by meeting with your supporters to tell them “it’s time” to do something about this nonsense.
I’d love for you to explain how this new tactic is supposed to work, because the rationale you propose in your first paragraph bears no resemblance to what he actually proposed. Sure, the rats will bite on it, so how does he take it away? What does he accomplish by proposing it if he intends to take it away?
I had two thugs try to break into my motel room through the glass balcony slider. I grabbed my Glock 23 from next to the bed, went to the slider, pulled back the curtain with one hand and let the barrel tap against the glass. As soon as those two thugs saw my pistol they immediately jumped over the railing and ran like a couple of scalded hyenas. When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
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